Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 3 February 2028 at 19:10.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2028 after 1 day on 10 February 2028 at 15:04.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 347 of Meeus index or 1300 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 25 minutes and it is 1 hour and 31 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2028. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠161.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠186.5°.
11 days since point of apogee on 28 January 2028 at 15:31 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 February 2028 at 19:53 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 364 740 km (226 639 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 678 km (221 629 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 08:56 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 22 February 2028 at 13:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 6 February 2028 at 12:59 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.601° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.565° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 February 2028 at 03:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 10 February 2028 at 15:04 in ♌ Leo the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov